Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?

2005-01-04 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 14:11, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > > Hmm. I'd say it should contain all info from the TFM > > > > * metrics (these are entirely unrelated to the extents of the > > outlines) > The advance widths have their natural place. > Height/Depth informa

Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?

2005-01-04 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > How do we prevent bigcheese20.otf from ending up hundreds of times > > in the output? > > It shouldn't be too difficult: > > . LilyPond produces EPS files which contain > > %%DocumentNeededResources: font bigcheese20 > > but doesn't contain the font

Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?

2005-01-04 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > mailing lists. George already has started with three SFNT tables in > > fontforge: > > > > ITLC italic correction > > TCHL TeX charlist > > TEXL TeX extension list > Actually I didn't add tables, I added new feature tags. > ITLC is a GPOS format 1 feat

Re: FYI pango/font status

2005-01-04 Thread Owen Taylor
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 19:28 +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > > * How do we deal with kerning in Pango? AFAIK, Pango does not > > > > read AFM/TFM files, so how can it compute kernings? > > > > > > IIRC Owen has mentioned that he plans to support reading of AFM > > > files for Type 1 fonts to

Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?

2005-01-04 Thread George Williams
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 00:09, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > Ideally, those OpenType TeX fonts should behave similar to any > > > other OpenType font; this means the loss of italic correction > > > (which isn't available in OpenType fonts), for example, but it > > > assures that the fon

Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?

2005-01-04 Thread Rogier van Dalen
On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 09:09:16 +0100 (CET), Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Ideally, those OpenType TeX fonts should behave similar to any > > > other OpenType font; this means the loss of italic correction > > > (which isn't available in OpenType fonts), for example,

Boxed rehersal marks

2005-01-04 Thread Erlend Aasland
Hello I find myself using boxed rehersal marks all the time. Instead of using long \markup stuff, I've created a patch for scm/translation-functions.scm. This patch makes it easy to write \mark \default and get nice boxed rehersal marks: \set Score.markFormatter = #format-mark-box-letters, or \set

Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?

2005-01-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > Ideally, those OpenType TeX fonts should behave similar to any > > other OpenType font; this means the loss of italic correction > > (which isn't available in OpenType fonts), for example, but it > > assures that the font interface doesn't have to cope with > > special case

Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?

2005-01-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > As perverse as it probably sounds in the very first moment, what > > do you think of always create an EPS file, even for the TeX > > backend, but without the text strings? > > Hmmm; that's an interesting idea. I agree it sounds perverse at the > beginning, but on 2nd thought it actually makes